when I was a kid, most of my friends and I had 8-bit micros that we could program (and maybe play some games on too). Most kids just don't do that any more.
My computer which i use at work is within a domain. And our internet connection is through some kind of filter. So in Internet Explorer, there is a configured lan setting. When i try to connect any other ethernet device with this computer, i cant even ping the device. How can i solve this issue?
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A security auditor for our servers has demanded the following within two weeks:
A list of current usernames and plain-text passwords for all user accounts on all servers
A list of all password changes for the past six months, again in plain-text
A list of "every file added to the server from re...
@pauska Yeah....I'm liking it. I'm still totally in dev, so I'll have to see how it scales and who it's suitable for but yeah it's cool.
More appropiate for corporate than education, though - I think Citrix have got that sorted thanks to media offloading. There's so much flash video floating around and the likes that they insist on using
I'm hoping this question will be appropriate for this site. The ServerFault people didn't think it applied to system administrators. Certainly I think it can be answered from a security perspective, if nothing else.
Ever since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), IT departments around the US h...
SOX is fine, so is PCI. It's the indivitual auditors that tend to be made of suck (as witness the other question you linked)
The advantage of PCI is it is actually sane and very clear as to what it wants. If someone knowledgable follows the PCI guidance documents bullet-point by bullet-point and doesn't start embellishing with their own wild flights of fancy you'll wind up with sane policies and controls. SOX by comparison is US Law - Vague and moronic, and filled with self-contradiction.
@voretaq7 I think it's actually rather simple... just been explained in over-complicated ways at the start. I've seen the same thing happen with PCI, mind you. "You must encrypt the entire university's network because of the registrar's office use of a 3rd party for handling credit cards."
Yes, they meant including student-owned machines in that.
Normally when I go to another SE, my account follows me. When I go to the security one, it asks me to log in. I don't remember how I created this account- facebook, google, openID, or whatever
Is there a way to find out what I used to create it?
& Re: SOX, If you haven't you should read through the act some time -- It's a Greek comedy, wrapped in the great tragedy that is US Legislation.
Foreknowledge of other sections of US Law really brings out the self-contradictions - especially when doing business with companies in the financial sector *and* [insert other regulated sector here]. There's some lovely he-said-he-said in there.
(if two laws contradict eachother the government is declared void and we can do whatever we want, right? right??)
Is it weird that I've never seen House? The only thing I know about it is that they used a Massive Attack song as a theme - so I guess it must be cool.
Then again, I never watch TV. I watch the Weather Channel. That's it. =/
@MDMarra From what I've seen, a lot of them do, yes.
Seems harmless, it's just that I saw a ton of cert services posts on the front page so I thought maybe an IT department hit a wall and is flooding us with questions.
tag all the windows things, I suppose. If it makes him happy, more power to him. That way he's not thinking of ways to make hardware vendors break my linux drivers.
Ah - sorry to be snippy, but you have a wag the dog here. It is not that AD does not support DNS names with spaces, but that DNS names per definition and RFC are not allowed to have spaces to start with. RFC 952 and 1123 both do not allow spaces as part of a DNS name.
So, AD does not lack suppor...
we're going to deploy 1600 installations of windows xp, and I've forgotten just about everything there is about deploying XP. Any advice on useful libraries/white papers/etc of what one should tweak/disable/enable on a stock XP install? We're going to use GPO extensively - so this is just a matter of the stuff that we can't do via GPO
I have one DHCP server. It is configured with one Superscope which contains 5 member scopes. One scope for each one of my subnets.
Here is the problem, if I am on VLAN 12 I get a VLAN 12 IP but if I disconnect my laptop and walk over to a port that is on VLAN 1 and reconnect nothing works. Mak...
I read the news when it came out- it was because the governing minister barred the opposition from attending something, and then asked them in front of cameras "Why weren't you there?"
You want to block people from attending, fine. But then you don't get to call them out for not being there, 'cuz they'll call you out for blocking them and you look like a twit.
(futher, an ADDLE-BRAINED TWIT when you don't pay enough attention to realize you already got your apology from the guy that called you out)
This morning's SANS blog-entry rang true with me.They're coming from an InfoSec point of view, but this fits into the overall IT framework rather well. I even remembered it in the chart I posted back in January:A discrete Security department is one of the last things to break out of the pack, and that's something the SANS diary entry addresses. Between one-gun IT and a discrete security departm…
@Basil Not substantially. Also we don't know how to drive in snow.
and re our apathy: 38% voter turnout is kinda pathetic. If we were truly polarized and angry we'd be seeing 80-90% turnout and fights in the streets over which candidate is better
Instead we have people who don't know there's an election happening, much less who's running.
@Basil We had one small town election near here where both candidates sucked so bad that the write-in candidate won. The polarized and angry is just what you see in the news because that draws eyeballs and sells advertising.
@voretaq7 Didn't say I think that qualifies, but that's how it's portrayed. The joke about newspapers really ought to be black & white and RED all over because it's blood in the streets that sells newspapers.
Personally, I just keep the barrels and actions clean and oiled, just in case.
Ideally, with as simple of install as possible and without requiring rebooting the servers. Mostly for GL380 G5's if it helps. Thanks.
I'm hoping this question will be appropriate for this site. The ServerFault people didn't think it applied to system administrators. Certainly I think it can be answered from a security perspective, if nothing else.
Ever since the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX), IT departments around the US h...
I have one DHCP server. It is configured with one Superscope which contains 5 member scopes. One scope for each one of my subnets.
Here is the problem, if I am on VLAN 12 I get a VLAN 12 IP but if I disconnect my laptop and walk over to a port that is on VLAN 1 and reconnect nothing works. Mak...
